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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 7:29 PM CDT for Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2011, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:02 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Madill, OK |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2867 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 602 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.2
- Supercell composite
- 44.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
941
WFUS54 KOUN 250029
TOROUN
OKC085-095-250115-
/O.NEW.KOUN.TO.W.0064.110525T0029Z-110525T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
729 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
NORTHEASTERN LOVE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LAKE MURRAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LEBANON...MADILL...NORTHWESTERN
LAKE TEXOMA...OAKLAND AND SOUTHERN LAKE MURRAY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE
TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER. OTHERWISE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE
WALLS.
&&
LAT...LON 3403 9716 3407 9708 3407 9697 3408 9696
3414 9696 3419 9689 3418 9669 3417 9662
3415 9659 3390 9706
TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 245DEG 41KT 3404 9696
$$1 follow-up statement
229
WWUS54 KOUN 250108
SVSOUN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
808 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
OKC085-095-250118-
/O.EXP.KOUN.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-110525T0115Z/
LOVE OK-MARSHALL OK-
808 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN MARSHALL AND NORTHEASTERN LOVE
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 815 PM CDT...
THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
LAT...LON 3403 9716 3407 9708 3407 9697 3408 9696
3414 9696 3419 9689 3418 9669 3417 9662
3415 9659 3390 9706
TIME...MOT...LOC 0108Z 245DEG 41KT 3422 9649
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 34 min |
| May 24, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Seminole | 17 min |
| May 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 41 min |
| May 24, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Marshall | 65 min |
| May 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Johnston | 42 min |
| May 24, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Marshall | 51 min |
| May 24, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Coal | 44 min |
| May 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Johnston | 51 min |
| May 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal | 39 min |
| May 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 55 min |
| May 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Pontotoc, Seminole | 61 min |
| May 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 37 min |
| May 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 60 min |
| May 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 28 min |
| May 24, 9:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Hughes | 28 min |
| May 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Hughes | 27 min |
| May 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Bryan | 25 min |
| May 25, 1:49 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | OUN | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 10 more | 17 hr |
| May 25, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Harper | 59 min |
| May 25, 3:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 51 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.